Heights Education Grants awarded

The Houston Heights Association's Education Committee announced its 2006 Grant Award winners in December 07. Every year, the committee doles out grants and awards not to exceed $750 for individuals and $1,000 for a team to help fund classroom projects for local teachers and schools.

The committee awarded three grants to help Harvard teachers plan something out of the ordinary for their students.

Kindergarten teacher Shari Burke and fifth-grade teacher Christina Shank received grant money to team teach an Earth Sciences project using Magiscopes, indestructible microscopes for children. Each fifth-grade student will have a kindergarten buddy and together they will explore objects searched for on the school grounds, in the classroom and brought from the home garden. Botanical and biology slides will be introduced.

During May, Asian Heritage Month, Mrs. Chans 4th graders will promote global understanding with food, reading Sadako & The Thousand Paper Cranes, and folding cranes of there own to send to the childrens monument in Hiroshima.

Also funding will be used for a fifth grade dance, following graduation.